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For post-merger integration sponsors

Three sales forces. Three CRMs. One number the board expects.

After an acquisition, commercial harmonisation is the work nobody scoped — and the work that decides whether the deal's numbers show up. This isn't full post-merger integration. It's the commercial slice: getting sales, marketing and service pulling as one engine, fast enough that the synergy case survives contact with reality.

What this is — and isn't. This is commercial harmonisation: aligning sales process, CRM and go-to-market across the acquired and acquiring entities so the combined number is real. It is not full PMI — legal entity consolidation, IT infrastructure migration, and HR harmonisation sit outside this scope, though the work is designed to plug into whatever PMI programme you already have running.

The problem

The deal closed. The commercial engine didn't merge.

Two or three sales teams keep selling the way they always have — different CRMs, different pricing logic, different definitions of a qualified lead. Leadership reports one combined revenue number to the board. Underneath it, nobody can actually see whether the synergy case is real, because nobody can see the pipeline as one thing. The first 100 days are when customer-facing teams either start acting like one company, or quietly settle into two.

What the first 30 days actually look like

Three moves, in order.

Weeks 1–2

Map what's actually different

Not what the org chart says, but what each sales team believes about its own process, its own CRM, its own customers.

Weeks 2–3

Agree one shared definition

At the table, not issued as policy — pipeline stage, qualified lead, or account ownership, whichever is costing the most right now.

Weeks 3–4

Stand up the first shared view

One report, one number, that both sales leaders trust enough to use in their own reviews.

Proof

Anonymised, real numbers.

Lead & market harmonisation

16-week pilot across 3 markets

Problem framing, workplan, stakeholder engagement and a sustainable integration path for harmonising lead generation and market adoption.

Read the Pilot Lead Harmonisation Playbook → Shared privately — request access.
Global chemicals distributor network

150+ distributors → under 70

Consolidated to under 70 strategic partners, with 360° performance management built in behind it.

Is your commercial engine actually merged?

A 30-minute conversation will tell you fast.

Bring your two sales leaders if you can.

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